Hyphens/Quotes/Apostrophes

Question 1

When do you use quotes?

Answer 1

Before and after a direct quotation

Question 2

_________ phrases like ‘she said’ or ‘he explained’ from quotes with a comma. The comma will be ______ opening quotation marks but ______ closing quotes

Answer 2

Separate; outside; inside

Question 3

Use ___________ around titles of short stories, essays, poems, songs, magazine articles, newspaper articles, or book chapters.

Answer 3

quotes

Question 4

Titles of books, plays, movies, TV series, magazines, and newspapers should be __________.

Answer 4

italicized

Question 5

Use _________ to form the _________ of a singular noun and a ____________ that doesn’t end in -s

Answer 5

apostrophes; possessive; plural noun

Question 6

If a plural noun ends in -s, add only an __________ to make it possessive

Answer 6

apostrophe

Question 7

Use an apostrophe to make ________

Answer 7

contractions`

Question 8

Use a ______ to split a word over two lines; make sure that there is a full ________ on both lines

Answer 8

hyphen; syllable

Question 9

Use a hyphen to separate ______________ and __________

Answer 9

compound numbers; compound words